Description of App
GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument. Enjoy a full range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share.
Play your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch like a musical instrument
- Perform on dozens of musical instruments on the innovative Multi-Touch keyboard
- Tap out beats from the seat of acoustic and electronic drum kits
- Recreate legendary guitar rigs with 9 amps and 10 stompbox effects
- Record your voice using the built-in microphone, and apply fun sound effects
- Use the Sampler to create an instrument from sounds you record, then play them on a keyboard
Sound like a virtuoso with Smart Instruments
- Tap chords to instantly create keyboard grooves with the Smart Keyboard
- Strum chords on acoustic and electric Smart Guitars, or trigger fingerpicking patterns for popular chords
- Groove with an onscreen electric or upright Smart Bass by tapping on chords
- Drag drum instruments onto a grid to create your own beats with the Smart Drums
Create a song anywhere you go
- Arrange and mix your song with up to eight tracks using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops
- Trim and place musical regions exactly where you want them to play
- Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume – solo or mute any track, or adjust pan, reverb, and echo
- Use over 250 professionally prerecorded loops as a backing band to your song
Share your songs
- Email songs right from GarageBand (AAC)
- Export your song and add it to the iTunes library on your Mac or PC
- Send a project to your Mac and open it in GarageBand to continue refining your song
Comments
The garage band app is quite
I would think this would be nearly impossible to use with VO
Setting up instrument configuration
1.1 now works on the small screen, and it works well!
Thanks
Thanks for the update and confirmation that it can be used with VoiceOver. I'll update the listing above to replect this.
Guide for Garageband?
Having some difficulties.
instrument switching
IRig MIDI
GarageBand
More instruments for GarageBand.
Changing types of Instruments?
Changing types of instruments.
1.2 fixes more stuff
Hi: to ad a loop in a track
Is It Possible to Do Editing?
Anyone interested in an email campaign to get GarageBand more ac
GarageBand improvements
I emailed Apple
Definitely worth doing, but
Agreed there. since the
garage band 1.4.1 on iPad mini:
Well, can anyone teach me how
adding multiple loops?
podcast for latest version
It would be nice if someone could do a podcast on the current version as I simply can not record and play my songs or anything.
Adding Instromints?
Hi is there a way I can add more Instromints? I've looked all over the app and haven't found such an option. I found how to change the Instromint but I would like to add more than the current app offers. Any help would be great!
Purchase full version to get more instruments?
I have forgotten but I think there is an in app purchase to get all the instruments. I don't think there is a way to add instruments other than what Apple provides. The latest update has included Chinese instruments and life Loops. Have you tried swiping left or right with three fingers when you are in the instruments category to see more types of instruments?
Cool!
Cool that worked! I don't see any in app purchisses though.
Pitch correction
Hello. Love this app. I do however have a question. Did they remove pitch correction and auto tuning? Or do they only have this in the mac version only.
adding instruments
The only way I know of to add new instruments is to download audio units. Theses are are software synthesizers as I understand it. The process of downloading them is simple, but The problem here is that I can't figure out the process of how to add them using VO. I'm putting out inquiries to several sources on this subject, and I'll add to this site when I find out how to do this, assuming the process is accessible.
Recording with Garageband on iPhone:
I'd love to record for more than 5 or 10 minutes. How do you get it to record for as long as you'd like to record? Thanks! Have a really blessed day.
Garage Band on iOs:
Is there a way to record with this app?
Accessibility issue.
Hi esther!
The cote from your article is:
Use the Mixer to fine-tune each track’s volume – solo or mute any track, or adjust pan, reverb, and echo.
But These features are not accessible now. So can you share any tricks to solve this with voiceover. Thank you.
Latest update fixes the slider issue
Hi!
Much to my delight, there has been an update to Garageband for iOS, and it seems to fix the problem that some of the knobs/sliders could not be manipulated with VoiceOver. I was able to change the volume, bass, treble, pan, and intensity of master effects on a track of my choosing in a controlled way.
Apple, it is very, very much appreciated.
Cheers Perry
They did much more than just that
From making the sound library easier to use, to helping editing be less of a chore with VoiceOver, Apple really double down on accessibility this time. There are definitely still issues, but it's at a point now where I can say if you need a good digital audio workstation for iOS, this is the one to choose. Also I posted in the Mac App Directory just a second ago, but GarageBand is free for everyone and has been for quite a while now. I think the entry should be updated to reflect this change. Would anyone like a podcast series on GarageBand? If so, I'd be more than happy to make a multipart series discussing many of the features of this app. Please let me know if this is something you would be interested in.
I definitely would be. Have
I definitely would be. Have wanted to learn to use GB for a while, but find it overwhelming, even after doing some today at Apple sessions on it, in which I was the only person, and the creatives teaching them really tried to understand how VoiceOver interacts with it. I have to give them credit for that. It was interesting having a speghetti mess of wires comthe out the bottom of my iPhone so all three of us could hear what was going on. lol
Re Zackary's offer of podcasts
I've been trying to figure out Garage Band on IOS for months. I've posted to several groups with little joy. I would very much welcome a podcast series on using Garage Band.
Still can't really get the hang of some aspects
Hi folks!
Now this is exceptionally great news!
@Zachary I'd love to listen to a podcast on how editing has improved. For example, I still have trouble moving a track right and left on the time axis, or trimming off the beginning or end, because of the following observations:
1. VoiceOver often has a hard time locating the little sizers to the left and right of a track which are used for trimming.
2. VoiceOver can land on those sizers even when they are not visible on screen.
3. When double-tapping and holding one of them, often instead of moving just the sizer, the entire track is moved.
4. VoiceOver gives very rudimentary and scattered feedback about where the track, or sizer, is currently located. Often it doesn't say anything for the entire time I move my finger, so I have to let go and then find out where I placed the object.
Can you please point out what I may be doing wrong, or create a little podcast demoing how it's supposed to work?
All the best,
Endarion
Podcast
All right I'll get on this soon. Hopefully I'll have one by either today or later on this week. I'm planning on starting from the basics, then slowly moving to more advanced topics. I am by no means an expert in using GarageBand, because I primarily use Logic on Mac for music production, but I'll try my best to be as thorough as possible. Unfortunately the recording quality for the podcasts won't be as good as I would like at the moment. I don't really have any mixer or equipment to record my phone directly, so you'll have to deal with the Mac internal microphone for now. I hope that's OK with everyone.
Podcast
Sure that's ok. I'm excited!
Quick Update
Just a quick update to let everyone know that the podcast is still going to happen. It's going to take a little longer than expected, as I'm in college and pretty busy right now. Look for something to be up by either Friday or Saturday this week.
GarageBand podcasts
Did these podcasts ever happen? If so, where can they be found? Thanks.
not so far
the app is quite impressive by the way.
Drum Kits
Does anyone have experience adding drum loops and the like and then. splitting them? I can't see how this would be accessible but I hope I' wrong.
GarageBand for iOS and iPad OS - New Accessibility enhancements
Hi all,
David Earl here from the Music Apps team at Apple. I wanted to let you know that the newest version of GarageBand for iOS and iPadOS was released today, and there were many accessibility enhancements that we wanted you to know about. Please check out the release notes here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212740
Among other enhancements, GarageBand includes the following:
• Navigation in the Track Settings using Voiceover has been improved.
• VoiceOver can now be used to create, edit, and delete automation points.
• Two finger scrub to reset to the beginning of the project during playback now works with VoiceOver.
• VoiceOver now provides feedback when editing region borders.
• VoiceOver now announces the currently visible area when scrolling the Tracks area.
• The Smart Keyboard is now fully accessible using VoiceOver.
...and many more.
We are happy to announce that there are over 60 enhancements in this version. We think that this will make GarageBand more accessible than ever, and look forward to further enhancing accessibility in the future for you all.
Take good care,
David